Physicist Mathias Dietz appointed

Prof. Dr. Mathias Dietz has been appointed Professor of Physiology and Modelling of Auditory Perception at the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics. Previously, he was an associate professor at the National Centre for Audiology at Western University in London, Ontario (Canada).

Dietz studied physics at the University of Münster before becoming a research assistant in the German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded Transregio Collaborative Research Centre “The Active Auditory System” at University of Oldenburg. Here he earned his PhD in 2009 with a thesis on directional hearing. From 2011 to 2012 he conducted research on a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Ear Institute of the University College London (UK). He then led a junior research group in the Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4all” at the University of Oldenburg until 2015. Since 2018 Dietz’s work has been funded by a 1.5 million euro Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Much of his research into binaural hearing is conducted with the help of sophisticated computer simulations of sound processing in the brain.